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Comment It's like a catharsis (Score 0) 99

It is startling how they have been plunging headfirst into electric. While they did cheat with diesel engines, they have huge expertise in that field, and the cheating was for cost and NIH reasons (they didn't want to use MB's SCR tech), not technical. I'd have thought they'd use mild or full hybridization, or even just more advanced actually clean diesels, at least as a transition.

Comment "Incognito" mode? (Score 1) 79

It doesn't save history, etc. etc. but when you open an incognito window, it is in a striking black background with a highly contrasting icon and letters saying "YOU ARE IN INCOGNITO MODE". Hey world, see, this browser window is in INCOGNITO MODE!!! Did you miss that? Here, let me use high contrast theme to tell you that this BROWSER IS IN INCOGNITO MODE!!!

Comment Re:New features while older apps linger in neglect (Score 1) 50

Given what those "apps" already do, the features you want aren't difficult to add, but it doesn't appear that they care what the users want. Other posters already said that, but I want to add that this is true of the Google Assistant itself. The OK Google thing used to be easier to use. For example, "OK Google, fastest way to work" and it'd say "here it is", or "so many minutes, etc. Now it silently brings up the map and directions silently, forcing you to keep looking at it.

Also, it never works from the phone app (on Nexus 5).

It used to be able to ID songs, now it can't.

Comment Problem with emergency calls from Android (Score 3, Informative) 279

The other day I go to report a dangerous situation on the road to 911, the call goes through, then I go to turn the speakerphone on, since it is loud on the street, and.. well, I can't, 'cos there's this big bar across all that with a busy indicator, but eventually it gets my location and shows me a picture of where I am. So they crippled the phone app to let me know where I am?

Comment Re:Looks highly dubious to me... (Score -1) 546

That's a cute statement. But irrelevant.

If more light is shed on KKK members, skeletons in their past will emerge. On the other hand, as is the case for a mayor on the list, it will be clear that they don't belong on the list.

And read my post - I didn't advocate for this release, I'm saying that maybe this is what Anon thought when they published it.

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